We investigate the growth of InP-on-GaAs combined with the advantages of double low-temperature （LT） buffers and strained layer surperlattices （SLSs）. It is found that LT-InP/LT-GaAs double LT buffers are more effective for strain accommodation than a LT-InP single buffer in InP-on-GaAs. On the other hand, there is an optimal thickness for LT-GaAs for a given thickness of the LT-InP layer,at which the double LT buffers can reach the best state for strain ad- justment. Furthermore,the position of insertion of SLSs should be carefully designed because the distance above the InP/ buffer interface plays an important role in threading dislocation interactions for dislocation reduction. As a result, the density of threading dislocations in the InP epilayer is markedly reduced. X-ray diffraction measurements show that the full width at half maximum of the ω/2θ rocking curve for the 2μm-thick InP epilayer is less than 200.
Using a full-vector finite-difference time-domain （FDTD） method, this article explores the propagation characteristics of photonic crystal fiber （PCF） theoretically. The dependence of structural parameters on the effective index of the fundamental guided mode, effective index of the fundamental cladding mode, mode field diameter, confinement loss, effective mode area, and chromatic dispersion in PCF have been studied, respectively. The research presents a reference for designing of PCF with a specific purpose.
The effect of different kinds of cap layers on optical property of InAs quantum dots （QDs） on GaAs （100） substrate was studied. Temperature dependent photoluminescence （PL） indicates that the PL integrated intensity from the ground state of InAs QDs capped with an intermediate InAIAs layer drops very little as compared to QDs capped with a thin InGaAs or GaAs cap layer from 15 K up to room temperature. PL integrated intensity ratio of the first excited to ground states for InAs QDs capped with an intermediate InAIAs layer is unexpectedly decreased with increasing temperature, which are attributed to phonon bottleneck effect. A virtual barrier is proposed to describe this physics process and shows good agreement with experimental results when fitting the curve with the value of the virtual barrier 30 meV.
